The Kapp Ekholm section, Billefjorden, Spitsbergen: a discussion

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Authors: MANGERUD, JAN, SALVIGSEN, OTTO
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1984
• Subjects: Billefjorden; Kapp Ekholm; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1984.tb00068.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1502-3885.1984.tb00068.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1984.tb00068.x

A radiocarbon date of 46,300 was obtained on shells in living position above the till exposed near Kapp Ekholm that G. S. Boulton (1979) dated at younger than 11,000 years B.P., his Billefjorden Stage, and which he assumed represented the Late Weichselian glacial maximum. According to a correlation...